Frontiers in Medicine Course on AIDS/HIV

As part of the Perelman School of Medicine's highly innovative
"Curriculum 2000™" program, the Penn CFAR sponsors a two-week elective
course on AIDS offered to fourth-year medical students as part of the
Curriculum's "Frontiers in Medicine" Program. THis course has been
designed for individuals who are soon to graduate and who have expressed
an interest in obtaining an in-depth learning experience about
HIV/AIDS. The CFAR Course provides integrated, comprehensive, and
state-of-the-art information on clinical, basic, behavioral and
epidemiological research issues in HIV/AIDS as well as on issues in
other areas including those pertaining to economics, ethics, quality of
life, and the role of pharmaceutical industry in the epidemic. Dr. Janet
Hines, an Infectious Disease clinician with extensive experience in the
HIV Clinical at HUP, designed this course with assistance from the
CFAR's Administrative Core.

Course Topics and Speakers from the Fall 2013 Course

Speaker

Title

Jim Hoxie

Introduction and Overview

Kathleen Brady

Epidemiology of HIV in Philadelphia

Bryce Carter

HIV and Behavioral Health

Ron Collman

Pathophysiology of HIV

Benoit Dube

HIV and Mental Illness: Psychiatry

Ian Frank

Antiretroviral Treatment: Successes and Failures

Janet Hines

Clinical Scenarios and Treatment

Helen Koenig

PReP and Prevention for Positives

Rahul Kohli

Molecular Pharmacology of HIV

Carl June

HIV and Biologic Therapeutics

David Metzger

Drug Treatment as HIV Prevention

Luis Montaner

Innate Immunity

Rick Rutstein

Perinatal Transmission

George Shaw

HIV Transmission and Acute Infection

Jane Shull

Activists and the HIV Epidemic: How Activism Started and Where We are Now